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Right now I have a digitech polara and I'm just not crazy about it. It's too boring i guess and the reverb sits in the mix in a weird way. I've had a hall of fame and sorta felt the same way about that. I wanna find a reverb that can do normal reverb sounds and get crazy as well. Right now I'm looking at
Industrialectric RM-1N
Earthquakes afterneath or dispatch master
Maybe a rv-3
And the red panda context

Any thoughts?

My RM-1N will be here next week, so I can offer some help there.

As to sitting in the mix weirdly, I think you'll feel similarly about the RV-3: it sits in the mix in a very specific way.

I don't have one but the RM-1N gets a lot of love here. And it looks awesome too.

scienceman wrote:a reverb that can do normal reverb sounds and get crazy as well.

You are describing the Eventide Space. Especially with an expression pedal and the HotSwitch.

I had the same "sits weird in the mix" feel about the Context. It's a great pedal, it just sounded...not present. Sort of hollow. The gated verb was nice though. If you want trails though, be aware of the fact that once you flip the internal trails switch the blend control will control the volume, and the knob is active even when the pedal is bypassed. It is done to "maintain consistent volume", but being a verb it really does not. You'll get a drop in perceived volume.

I love both my RV-3 and RM-1N, but nothing beats the RM-1N in my book. It's just a monster of a reverb/fuzz/drone/preamp. Rolling back the gain you can get some beautiful clean verb sounds too.

UglyCasanova wrote:nothing beats the RM-1N in my book. It's just a monster of a reverb/fuzz/drone/preamp

yasss


it also makes heart beat sounds very kewl

Afterneath gets weird, but I found it a little to rigid for something that was marketed as an ambient gold mine. On the longer, multitap type settings, the taps happened in the same pattern every time. Its a little better on the washy settings.

The DBA reverberation machine can go mild or wild. Lots of fun.

The Neunaber Wet sits in the mix really well, and has a wide range of reverb decay. But it doesn't get "crazy" I'd say. Just really really spacey.

UglyCasanova wrote:I had the same "sits weird in the mix" feel about the Context. It's a great pedal, it just sounded...not present. Sort of hollow. The gated verb was nice though. If you want trails though, be aware of the fact that once you flip the internal trails switch the blend control will control the volume, and the knob is active even when the pedal is bypassed. A little strange if you ask me.

This is exactly how I feel about the Particle. Maybe it's just a Red Panda thing?

The Particle hates hot signals. It compresses like crazy. I like it, but I don't use it with fuzz (don't kill me, ILF).

edit: and if you like spacey, I'd rather get a RV-5. The modulated verb is really nice on it.

a used MS70CDR will get you a lot of decent verb for the $

not as nice as RM1N tho

its been said before....it will be said again
RM-1N
get one and don't look back.

Based on what you want, the RM-1N, Red Panda Context, or Space are all good choices.

If you want just a reverb that sits well in the mix, then the stereo wet is perfect. Not to sound like a TGP nerd, but its really good, esp now with the new controller option. But it can't get as crazy as the ones listed above.

Just a question for those who had both, how does the RM-1N compare to the context, particularly the latter's hall and plate modes?

alexsga wrote:a used MS70CDR will get you a lot of decent verb for the $

Oh yeah! that too if OP is on a budget.

UglyCasanova wrote:I had the same "sits weird in the mix" feel about the Context. It's a great pedal, it just sounded...not present. Sort of hollow. The gated verb was nice though. If you want trails though, be aware of the fact that once you flip the internal trails switch the blend control will control the volume, and the knob is active even when the pedal is bypassed. It is done to "maintain consistent volume", but being a verb it really does not. You'll get a drop in perceived volume.

I love both my RV-3 and RM-1N, but nothing beats the RM-1N in my book. It's just a monster of a reverb/fuzz/drone/preamp. Rolling back the gain you can get some beautiful clean verb sounds too.

I totally agree about the Context, my idea is that it just kills your real guitar signal, changes it in some way and makes it sound weaker, it also doesn't have a volume control to boost things up so it gets a bit below unity gain (with or without trails), all of which you especially notice on more extreme settings.

Basically my list would be like this:
utility verb to crazy verb = Dr Sci Reverberator
utility verb to spacey ambient verb = Dr Sci BitQuest, EQD Ghost Echo
spring verb to crazy verb = Industrialectric RM-1N
don't know what it does = OBNE Procession

Uncle Grandfather wrote:its been said before....it will be said again
RM-1N
get one and don't look back.

UglyCasanova wrote: nothing beats the RM-1N in my book. It's just a monster of a reverb/fuzz/drone/preamp. Rolling back the gain you can get some beautiful clean verb sounds too.

RM-1n. RM-1n. RM-1n.

Really.

If you are at all a reverb person, an ambience person, a drone person, a weird cool unique nothing else like it stompbox person, you owe it to yourself to try the Industrialectric. Of the reverb resurgence we've had in the last 2 years or so, there's really NOTHING like it. Nothing with the feature set, the warmth, the analog touch sensitive vulcan mind meld between your instrument and amp feel, the DRONE. NOTHING.

Buy one. I don't think anyone has bought one and not liked it - should you be the exception or it just doesn't work for your setup, I'm sure the BST will swallow it up in 24-48 hrs.